Background
Silvia is an experienced trust and estate special counsel with extensive expertise in personal asset planning and the management and succession of private wealth. She advises individuals, families, and trustees on structuring their affairs to protect assets, provide for future generations and respond to changing family and personal circumstances.
A particular focus of Silvia’s practice is international and cross-border private client work. She advises on arrangements involving assets, family members, trustees and other interests across multiple jurisdictions, and works alongside other professional advisers in New Zealand and overseas to ensure client’s affairs are appropriately coordinated. Her practice encompasses all aspects of trusts, succession planning, wills and estates, trustee and governance matters, property management and charitable trusts.
Silvia’s depth of private client experience is complemented by first-hand experience as a trustee and director of special purpose trustee companies. Before joining Martelli McKegg, she was a managing director at Fidentem Group, an international fiduciary and corporate administration provider.
Expertise
- Creating, reviewing and administering bespoke trust structures, including foreign trust structures
- Estate planning advice
- Estate administration
- Property management
- Providing legal opinions and expert opinions to clients and courts in respect of complex trust, property management and charity law matters
- Provision of professional trustee services
Professional Development
Qualifications
- Admitted in New Zealand, 2016
- Admitted as a Solicitor of the Senior Courts of England and Wales, 2006
- Postgraduate Diploma in Legal Practice, UK, 2003
- BA (Hons), University of Hertfordshire, UK, 2002
